Claim profile
900–999

The 10th century

Whose working lives fell in the 10th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.

Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 10th century, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.

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  1. 1Pope John XIIPope John XII937–964 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures7 decades
  2. 2Pope Leo VIIIPope Leo VIII915–965 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Writers0 decades
  3. 3Pope Benedict VPope Benedict V900–965 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  4. 4Pope LandoPope Lando900–914 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  5. 5Pope John XIIIPope John XIIIdied 972 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  6. 6Pope John XIPope John XI910–936 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  7. 7MaroziaMarozia892–936 · 🇮🇹 Italy16 decades
  8. 8Pope Leo VIPope Leo VIdied 928 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  9. 9Pope Leo VIIPope Leo VIIdied 939 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  10. 10Pope Benedict VIPope Benedict VIdied 974 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  11. 11Pope Agapetus IIPope Agapetus II900–955 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  12. 12Pope Marinus IIPope Marinus II900–946 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  13. 13Pope John XVIIPope John XVIIdied 1003 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  14. 14Pope Benedict IVPope Benedict IV900–903 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  15. 15Pope Benedict VIIPope Benedict VIIdied 983 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  16. 16Pope John XVIIIPope John XVIIIdied 1009 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  17. 17Pope Stephen VIIPope Stephen VIIdied 931 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  18. 18RomualdRomuald951–1027 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figuresnot measured—
  19. 19William of VolpianoWilliam of Volpiano962–1031 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects0 decades

How this is measured

  • Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
  • Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
  • Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
  • What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.